these softners require lots of salts and give off s certain light stink, make noise, and possible malfunction could lead to flooding on a mass scale

besides besements are generally dank, damp, full of radon gas(dempending where u live) have furnaces(potential evevated CO levels) and are noisey, difficult to get out of in case of fire

ther has to be a better place for the little tyke than a basement>?

you got to have a sit down this this son of yours and tell him the whats-up about takeing care of his famioly. perhaps thsi son of yours should sleel in the water treatment plant part of the house and the kid gets an upstairs room...see how that works out